Advancing sustainable lifestyles

Advancing sustainable lifestyles

Sustainability starts at home: our home appliances improve lifestyles with innovative and resource-saving functions and promote sustainable growth. In order to further advance sustainable lifestyles, we call on the European regulators to work with us to ensure increased consumer choice to make all lifestyles sustainable, and turn the energy efficiency potential of our appliances into real energy savings.

Living the connected home

Living the connected home

The home appliance industry is a forward-thinking sector, that is continuously investing in Research & Development to find innovative ways to respond to the challenge of designing connected, smart and state-of-the-art appliances that will make European homes more comfortable and sustainable. The sector needs a supportive, policy-friendly environment that includes a Connected Appliances Platform - as part of the EU Digital Single Market - to discuss trends and market uptake with industry and to prepare the ground for connected homes with clear, consistent policy and infrastructure.

Accelerating Europe’s growth

Accelerating Europe’s growth

European economic growth and competitiveness depends on a free, balanced, open and fair trading system, both within the European Single Market and for imports/exports with third countries. We therefore support an EU strategy that focuses on keeping markets open and trade flowing.

With the trilogue negotiations on the omnibus starting this week, there is a great opportunity to update and create another set of legislation offering further protection to EU consumers. Read more what Paolo Falcioni said at the European Consumers Union’s event on strengthening the European Union for a more effective consumer protection.

When looking at a way to tackle non-compliant products on the market, the home appliance industry believes that market surveillance must be based on measurable, repeatable and affordable standards. Working together on improving standards EN 60335-2-9 and EN 60335-2-14 is crucial.

The co-signing associations represent manufacturers, software providers and sellers that are engaged in cross-border sales and committed to providing high-level quality of services and products to EU consumers.

“When we speak about standards, it is important to understand that we are all sitting at the same side of the table", this is how Paolo Falcioni, Director General of APPLiA, kicked off the discussion on why the participation of NGOs in the standardisation process matters. The event was organised on December 5th by the European Environmental Citizens’ Organisation for Standardisation (ECOS) in Brussels.